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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 2, 2007Airbus's new super jumbo will fly over Hong Kong on Monday, heralding the start of Asia's largest airshow, with the industry set to vie for slices of India's and China's booming markets. The double-decker A380 is due to pass over the city's Victoria Harbour, an airspace normally reserved for helicopters, at around 1,000 feet (300 metres), marking the beginning of the four-day show. ... more India launches communications satellite 
Sriharikota, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2007India on Sunday sent into orbit a rocket carrying the replacement for a communications satellite destroyed last year, raising its hopes of competing for global satellite launch business. The 49-metre (1,481-feet) rocket carrying the Insat-4CR satellite blasted off from the Sriharikota space station in southern India at 6:21 pm (1251 GMT) after a two-hour delay due to a technical glitch. ... more Jupiter: Friend Or Foe 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007The traditional belief that Jupiter acts as a celestial shield, deflecting asteroids and comets away from the inner Solar System, has been challenged by the first in a series of studies evaluating the impact risk to the Earth posed by different groups of object. Understanding how Jupiter affects impact rates is important because asteroid and comet impacts can have profound implications for life ... more Water Vapor Seen Raining Down On Young Star System 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2007NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought to form. The observations provide the first direct look at how water, an essential ingredient for life as we ... more India Lofts GEO Bird Using Powerful New Domestic Built Launcher 
Sriharikota, India (SPX) Sep 02, 2007India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04, had a successful launch at 18.20 hours September 2nd from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota and it placed India's INSAT-4CR into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. This was the fifth flight of GSLV and the fourth successful one. INSAT-4CR is now orbiting the Earth in GTO with a perigee ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 The diesel submarine may be the leading "Cinderella weapon" of the 21st century. It gets no respect in the United States or Russia. But China, India, France, Germany and Israel are all betting on it big time. The diesel submarine is certainly not a sexy new technology like anti-ballistic missiles, global positioning satellites or lasers. It has been around as long as the submarine itself ... more China promises more military transparency 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2007China said Sunday it will begin reporting its armed forces budget to the United Nations and rejoin a global register of conventional arms amid foreign pressure for greater military transparency. China said the moves were meant to show the world its commitment to military transparency, at a time when its massive armed forces expansion is causing alarm bells to ring in Asia and further afield. ... more China power growing as Bush ignores Asia: Armitage 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007US President George W. Bush is so preoccupied with Iraq he is neglecting Asia and allowing China to take a greater leadership role, a former senior US official said in remarks published Monday. "In every measure, China is making real hay right throughout Asia," Richard Armitage, Bush's former deputy secretary of state told The Australian newspaper in an interview. ... more New Times Atlas displays effects of climate change 
London (AFP) Sept 2, 2007Creators of the Times Atlas have had to make significant changes to their latest edition because of changes to the world's landscapes caused by climate change, their chief said Sunday. Cartographers have had to redraw coastlines and reclassify types of land to reflect changes to geographical features like Lake Chad in Africa, which is now 95 percent smaller than it was in 1963. ... more Felix intensifies into Category Five super-hurricane 
Miami (AFP) Sept 2, 2007Hurricane Felix intensified into a potentially devastating Category Five storm Sunday as it churned its way through the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded Felix from a Category Two to a Category Five, the topmost strength on the Saffir-Sampson scale, over a bare 15 hours Sunday as it moved over the warm ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Iran is considering alternative builders to finish its first nuclear power plant amid disputes with Russia, which now heads the project, a Russian daily quoted an Iranian official as saying Friday. "Iran is interested in the atomic power station at Bushehr being finished on time and specifically by Russia," daily Gazeta quoted Iranian presidential spokesman Ali Akbar Javanfekr as saying. ... more India must not 'miss the bus' on nuclear energy: PM 
Tarapur, India (AFP) Aug 31, 2007India cannot afford to lag behind developed nations in nuclear energy, the country's prime minister said Friday as he battled opposition from communist allies to an atomic deal with the US. "There is today talk the would over of a nuclear renaissance. We cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind these global developments," Manmohan Singh said during a visit to nuclear energy installations ... more Short circuit at Bulgarian nuclear plant forces reactor shut-down 
Sofia (AFP) Sept 1, 2007A short circuit in the generator of one of two reactors at Bulgaria's nuclear power plant at Kozloduy forced authorities to shut the reactor down early Saturday morning, officials at the plant said. "A short circuit in the excitor chains of the generator of reactor No 5 prompted us to switch off the whole 1,000-megawatt bloc from the electricity grid of the country," safety director Mitko Ya ... more Analysis: Iran seeks oil swaps 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the race to bring Caspian oil to the global market has been marked by a three-way race involving Russia, the United States and Iran. Five nations now share the Caspian's coastline - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Russia initially won the race to exploit Kazakh and Turkmen energy assets, while Azerbaijan, first with th ... more Analysis: EU shields grids from Russia 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 The European Union is reverting to unusual measures to guarantee its energy security. According to a report, Brussels is looking to shield its oil and gas sector from unwanted acquisitions by foreign players. The protectionist measures are to be part of the planned EU energy market reform, which the European Commission with its proposals wants to jump-start Sept. 19 ... more
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